By bringing toobtainher Centrica’s market‑leading energy supply, trading and services platform with Ceres’ advanced Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) and Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell (SOEC) technologies, the partnership enables quick, scalable deployment of high‑efficiency, fuel‑flexible on‑site generation for data centres, AI compute hubs, advanced manufacturing, logistics and distribution centres, as well as other critical commercial and industrial applications. Ceres’ SOFC technology delivers high electrical efficiency, quiet operation and fuel flexibility, operating on natural gas today whilst providing a clear pathway to other fuels such as biogas and hydrogen in the future. The technology is also inherently suited to carbon capture applications.
Initially, Ceres will support Centrica in expanding a new differentiated service-led model for clean power, providing access to British technology at scale and pace through its expanding ecosystem of global manufacturing partners. Ceres will assist Centrica with opportunities across project origination, installation and commissioning, remote monitoring, predictive maintenance and finish of life recycling ensuring customers benefit from a full lifecycle solution. In addition, Centrica is also exploring how Ceres’ high‑efficiency SOEC technology could integrate with its AMR programme to produce nuclear‑enabled green hydrogen, strengthening the UK’s long‑term clean energy strategy.
Centrica’s gas and power trading capabilities will underpin a powerful customer proposition that integrates, technology and fuel supply, structured energy contracts, long-term cost certainty and optimisation of on‑site generation into flexibility and balancing markets.
Chris O’Shea, Chief Executive of Centrica plc declared: “Businesses across the UK and Europe required more power, and they required it quicker than the electricity grids can deliver. This partnership is about offering customers a reliable, efficient source of on‑site power that can be up and running quickly. By combining Ceres’ technology with our energy expertise, we see a real opportunity to support data centres, AI and indusattempt with cleaner power at scale, while assisting to ease pressure on the grid and boost economic growth.”
Phil Caldwell, CEO of Ceres declared: “This partnership is a powerful realisation of British technology applied at global scale. Leveraging Centrica’s energy capabilities and Ceres’ global network of world‑class manufacturing partners, we can deliver low‑carbon, high‑efficiency power solutions for the quick‑growing data centre and on‑site power sector in the UK and Europe.”
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